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By now, we all should understand that the original Motorola XOOM that was sold to Verizon customers back in March as the first ever Honeycomb device was a beta product. Google admitted that Honeycomb was rushed and unfinished and the device lacked 4G LTE radios that would need to be added on later. It’s been a rough ride to say the least.

There may be a glimpse of hope on the horizon though, as Motorola Feedback Members who own the device are being invited to test an update in the near future. All we can think is, “This has to be Ice Cream Sandwich.” What else could it possibly be at this point? We have seen the screenshots from Verizon’s internal testing system, showing that Android 4.0 has been in testing and potentially ready for some time now. I’d say the day has finally come. And let’s not forget that Motorola told us “Q2″ for a rollout.

According to the info we received, it doesn’t matter if your XOOM has been upgraded with the LTE radio or is still on CDMA, the update should work anyway.

For the record, that’s a bad way to advertise something you want to sell.

http://twitter.com/Defenestratus Defenestratus

Too late moto/verizon. Already flashed AOKP and couldn’t be happier.

JoshGroff

Flashing it today, expecting it to be awesome. I doubt I’ll be disappointed.

http://www.getintonursing.com/ Jon

Wait what! Isn’t the the Xoom a Google device? And yet no ICS already?

bakdroid

The Xoom Wifi (US) is the true Google device. Remember, CDMA devices are no longer (really never have been) on the ASOP tree.

http://twitter.com/mutinymanx Tyler Spurgeon

OMG! I hope so, my Xoom has been acting up. The browser keeps crashing and after that happens I have to restart it.

Lactose_the_Intolerant

Hope y’all get it sooner or later… Xoom on ICS is amazing!

Droid-Xer

What does it matter? Root it people. Its a GED tablet for gods sake.

Michael Franz

Still rocking AOKP…..just sayin =p

JoshGroff

Going to rock AOKP this evening, don’t have time to root/unlock/flash @ work

Michael Franz

its worth it, im actually running Black ICE which is a slightly modded AOKP B37. I just am partial to the theming done in Black ICE

JoshGroff

For some reason the latest gapps recommended in milestone 5 isn’t working with B37 (keeps going to lock screen and won’t unlock, even after a full wipe and formatting /system)

Had to revert to stock after having the same problems with EOS.

Michael Franz

The Gapps i use are dated from 04292012, my typical install goes as follows
wipe data/cache.dalvik
format system
flahs rom
flash gapps
load rom, let google restore apps and sync up, not touching anything else.
reboot to recovery, flash the black ice themed gapps
They can all be found in the rootzwiki.com forum for android development on the xoom

http://twitter.com/Roloc Roloc

And to download the stock rom from Moto is taking forever!

Daniel Clifford

Don’t get your hopes up! We had a soak test for the Bionic…..last month and we still have yet to see anything.
Nothing is for sure until someone actually downloads it.

akazerotime

Looks like i am returning to stock.. :SIGH:

azndan4

Motofail for the 100th time.

garbagedick

Moto had the update for the wifi one out for months now, the fail is clearly Verizon

http://profiles.google.com/adamtruelove Adam Truelove

Correction, Google had the update for the wifi one out for months now. Though the fail on this one is still Verizon.

4n1m4L

Its comforting knowing there is nothing between my wifi Xoom and google

azndan4

Maybe if Motorola had the balls to push Verizon to update the product, it wouldn’t have taken so long?

KleenDroid

Amazing

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